IRFD update: lizard, fossil, more!

Here are another seven happy Rock Flippers, who posted on Twitter at #rockflip:

Michael ‏@akmrbaldwin
Happy Int'l Rock Flipping Day from Alaska - a carabid beetle! #rockflip #IAmANaturalist pic.twitter.com/C7IrrL6n0D

Lobo Guará ‏@juandoso
Hidden treasures! pic.twitter.com/UcvzHVJqGs

Rebecca Zarazan Dunn ‏@rebeccazdunn
Happy International Rock Flipping Day  pic.twitter.com/8vGF2abNuF

Janet K C ‏@jkricketc
Just the usual dinosaur AKA Western fence lizard. pic.twitter.com/oQRg4kmJEZ

Jesse Calhoun Bethea ‏@jesscalhoun
Adventuring in Glen Echo Ravine for #rockflip day. pic.twitter.com/0UhD9xSbAL
Melissa found a fossil. pic.twitter.com/r5GEIpqYFx

Earthworm pic.twitter.com/h2BQHK4xTH

Catherine Scott ‏@Cataranea
Happy international rock flipping day! Perhaps you might find a beautiful spider! [photo by @Ibycter] pic.twitter.com/U3XHWoph7j

Laura ‏@lkwagonlander
September 14, 2014 http://pic-collage.com/_r4br8K49 pic.twitter.com/l2YpKZ6CIO

(This has a Rock-flipping kid.)

A couple of others also posted their photos on Twitter, but they had also added them to the Flickr pool, so they're on the first list, which I'll repost here:

• From Pennsylvania, Kate of Outside My Window participates in IRFD… without flipping a rock! I guess we’ll allow that, especially since she found some nifty spider webs and a small mammal.
• Here in British Columbia, I (that's Heather - ed.) did flip rocks, and after many tries turned up a couple of worms and a pill-bug (or something like one, anyway).
• Elsewhere in the province, (I, Susannah) face similar challenges with dry rocks, but still manage to find a few things, including (unfortunately) some non-organic debris.
• And to the south in Washington state, Dave Wenning of Wild Fidalgo flips rocks on the beach (and in his garden) and finds several Purple Shore Crabs. And a few other things. Even if he didn’t look very dignified doing it.
• Bill finds several critters under his rocks, including a beautiful millipede. (A beautiful millipede? Well, I think it is.)
• The WNY meet-up page includes a number of rock flipping discoveries, such as a lovely speckled salamander and a pair of slugs from Barbara Newman H., and a pretty black beetle and another salamander from Mark. I’m jealous – I wish I could have found a salamander!

Over in the International Rock Flipping Day Flickr group, many more interesting things have been discovered:

• Sara Rall flipped paving stones and came up with a good variety of small critters, including a rove beetleand a ground cricket. 
• Rob Cruikshank found ants and pupas, and a cute white springtail.
• Paul Fehringer, of Wild Spirit Education, found a red-legged beetle, and a strange (to me) centipede.
• And John Beetham found a spider with the intriguing name of Amaurobius ferox. Among other beasties.